Perspectives

In rejecting an AI company's fair use defense for using Thomson Reuters' Westlaw headnotes to train its competing legal tool, Judge...

Out of the 1,199 (and counting) trial court rulings addressing Covid business interruption lawsuits, only one of them resulted in a...

This case tested the contours of the landmark Google v. Oracle computer software code fair use decision. Astronics, a military aerospace...

In a long-anticipated report from the U.S. Copyright Office providing guidance on the copyrightability of works created by and/or with...

This summary of a recently filed complaint illustrates one of the worst-case scenarios an insured defendant can find itself in: getting...

On January 14, 2025, EPA released for public comment its Draft Sewage Sludge Risk Assessment for Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and...

Our hearts are with all of the fire victims in this devastating time. This advice is not new, but it bears re-circulating due to the...

On January 3, 2025, EPA issued a press release announcing that nine additional PFAS had been added to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)...

On December 5, 2024, CARB issued an Enforcement Notice discussing its enforcement standards for 2026 climate reporting under SB 253, and...

As a general rule, in order to be protectable trade dress, a feature of a product, for example, the product's color, must be...

On December 19, 2024, EPA announced draft national recommended human health criteria (HHC) for three PFAS in waterbodies:...

Compliance with AB 1305, the Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Act (Health & Safety Code sections 44475 – 44475.3), is mandatory for...